Category: Migration

  • A low that won’t go and the weekend outlook

    Right now it looks like our best bet for heavy migration into the eastern mid-Atlantic will be tonight, when upper-level winds across New England and NY are out of the NNW. Expect upper-level winds to turn more northerly overnight  and eventually northeasterly tomorrow (ouch!). That’s not the worst of it- right now it looks like […]

  • A pain in the front

    Hey cold front- here’s the plan: Come in from the west, stick around for a day if you’d like, and then march on out to the Atlantic like you’re ‘supposed’ to. Let the high pressure build in behind you and give the next front a chance to move in. And the beat goes on. Of […]

  • Finally some cooperative weather! (UPDATE)

    Blurry-eyed from walking the streets of Cape May listening to nocturnal flight calls and trying to get out the door this morning, here’s the radar from 7:30pm last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Things began to fall into place a night […]

  • Southerly blues are about to change… just not this morning

    The regional composite says it all. Here it is from 7:30pm last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.       Strong southerly flow over the mid-Atlantic and Northeast pretty much shut down migration for the region last night. Birds were moving on the […]

  • Little over the mid-Atlantic

    Southerly flow dominated again last night (it only takes walking outside my house to know… the mosquito-meter is all but foolproof) which appears to have shut down any significant southbound migration. Here’s the radar from 7:30pm last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized […]

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